Posted on 06/23/2019 7:17:09 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Today is the third anniversary of the EU Referendum. Like all Brexiteers, I can remember exactly where I was when I heard the result. And more importantly, I remember exactly how it felt. It felt as people must have done on VE Day. (Quite appropriate, really, given what the E in VE Day stands for…)
It felt how that preeminent knight of the Crusades Reynald de Chatillon must have felt on his release after years in the lightless, airless, foetid dungeons of Aleppo.
It felt like that time I chatted up a Norwegian barmaid well above my pay grade and instead of being turned down I got lucky.
It felt like lots of other things too, all of them good, and I expect it was just the same for you. Brexit Day — Independence Day, as we told ourselves we would soon come to call it — was perhaps the greatest political event of our lives because it was so momentous and so unexpected.
Momentous because — unlike general elections for parties so samey there was little to choose between them anyway — the result really would make a genuine difference.
Unexpected because — as we’d seen in the fractious, ugly campaign leading up to it — the Remainer Establishment had done everything it conceivably could have done, both by fair means and foul, to try to ensure that the people of Britain did not vote the way all their instincts urged them to vote.
The outcome, despite the Remainer Establishment’s best efforts, was:
17,410,742 for Leave
16,141,241 for Remain
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
“The Establishment in this country is as scheming and sinister and mendacious and self-serving and hateful and contemptuous and intransigent as the Establishments in all the more obviously corrupt and evil and dangerous countries in the world to which we used to feel superior. It’s just much better at masking its vileness.”
In simple language, the majority of those sitting in Parliament won’t sign off to leave, unless there is a ‘deal’ for trade on the table. The EU knows this, and has no intention of giving them that singular deal. The Brits can have a Norway-like deal (meaning they are still in some way attached to the EU), or a Swiss-like deal (meaning they are still attached in some way to the EU) or a Ukraine-like deal (same thing).
The trade deal can only come if the 40-odd billion Euro flow from the UK to the EU, with several functions like the EU court still having a say over UK matters, or other EU commissions having some final word over UK matters.
The only way to handle this is a hard exit....no cash handed to the EU, and some hope that the US trade deal will make up for the mess handed to them by the EU.
Yes, I thought the same thing and, in both cases, a lot of mendacious deep state saboteurs need to be stood against a wall after a quick trial.
Brilliant work. Most of us could plainly see the “conservatives” in the UK desperately trying and succeeding in delaying independence and conserving their UK cachet and perks. Madame May was DEVOTED to a united europe and played the game so long it became a farce.
it’s like if the u.s. voted in a President that the Establishment could never accept as a premise. Any compromise is fine so long as he does not take office or govern. And any Brexit deal is fine so long as the EU stays in control. Leave means Leave and Trump Won, She Lost, Get Over It.
UK, EU pact to run out the clock until enough foreigners embedded to tip a redo vote to remain as a EU vassal state.
The redo is called Peoples Vote. The People had their vote and choice, it was just the wrong one according to the ruling class.
London should secede then the vote would be 90% insted of 52%
if their is a treasonous, venzuela like revote.
Brexit was not a vote for Permission and a vote for Trump was not a call for squishy eGOP to fight to keep Obama and Nancy’s status quo.
Because many Brits feel more like citizens of the EU than of the UK. Like the kid who grew up in Podunk, Iowa but now thinks of himself as a New Yorker...
Nigel Farage I believe has a plan for a hard exit. Trump will cut the UK some sweet trade deals.
“Yes, I thought the same thing and, in both cases, a lot of mendacious deep state saboteurs need to be stood against a wall after a quick trial.”
Might I humbly submitt the use of the FDR Memorial in DC.
It is a veritable maze of thick walls, full of Communist screed in need of a good sand-blasting.
Jobs in DC should be a perk for civil service employees from around the county.
Civil service workers should ‘serve’ in DC for six years - then go back ‘home’. That stops control freak bureaucrats from stealing power from elected Representatives and it offers insight from and for - all citizens.
Membership in the EU gave cover to unpopular globalists and the Royality behind the elected. The serfs are still serfs. The royals hide behind the moots of the EU and elected national leaders living in splendor and attending all the same political and social functions. If the royals were still not the power behind the “throne”, they would have been deposed and killed by the socialists who would then be communists. The difference between a communist and socialist government is that communists kill the royals and socialists hide under their existence.
Then the “government” would essentially “start from scratch” every 6 years. There’s nothing wrong with a professional but nonpolitical civil service. The first step would be to actually enforce the Hatch Act. GOP administrations pretend to, Rat administrations pretend it doesn’t exist. The second step is decertify federal government unions. They were allowed in by an Executive Order (JFK) they can be removed by an EO. Then pass legislation expressly forbidding it. I’ve toyed with the idea of not allowing federal workers to vote in federal elections but allowing in state, county, & local. That might mean not allowing the military to vote. I am uncomfortable with that. However back in the days when the military was very small (meaning the core “regulars”) very few did. Also moving federal offices out of the district might be another solution, a way of breaking up their sense of being not “hoi polloi”.
Of course the whole problem is really that of the voting public continues to vote for buffoons who promise to get John Q Public’s snout a turn in the federal trough. The bureaucracy is just a reflection of that. If people actually took voting seriously instead of a “what’s in it for me!” attitude much of these problems would go away.
As far as the fed employees stealing the power from the elected reps. They don’t so much as steal power as the elected reps turned power over to them! Case in point, the “administrative law judges” in the regulatory agencies, SS, Medicare, etc. Congress “the elected reps” set all that up! What are they? Judges or bureaucrats? Truth is a little of both. Congress just didn’t want to be bothered with the extra work of writing clear laws let these “judges” sort it out! There are other examples!
Most of the things you’re mad at can be laid at the feet of these clowns we keep sending back to office for 30 years. Ten or twelve years and then out before they can return for at least the same amount of time!
US LNG and Oil are in glutted surplus with the Bakken alone having more than ten times the proven reserves of all of OPEC; these alone will more than fill the trade gap left by a hard exit of Britain from the EU.
USA fuel exports are critical CRITICAL to the EU. US gas and oil production can undercut OPEC so severely that it is a simple matter to allow our British allies to be the lead sales agent of US fuels to the EU and their Brexit deficit disappears. And it’s simple, BP London gets favorable fuel pricing from the US and acts as one of the lead facilitators to supply the EU. The EU cannot refuse the new sourcing because the Euro nations would be in hysterical revolt.
So this would be a creation of a fuel ‘carry trade’ allowing Britain to reign over the EU because the USA puts them in command through an empowering trade agreement. Nigel Farage knows exactly how this goes down.
Britain’s chief exports can be boosted and steered to US markets:
Machinery including computers: US$72.5 billion (15% of total exports)
Vehicles: $55.4 billion (11.4%)
Gems, precious metals: $47.5 billion (9.8%)
Mineral fuels including oil: $45.1 billion (9.3%)
Pharmaceuticals: $30.1 billion (6.2%)
Electrical machinery, equipment: $29.4 billion (6.1%)
Aircraft, spacecraft: $19.7 billion (4.1%)
Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $19.2 billion (4%)
Plastics, plastic articles: $12.8 billion (2.6%)
Organic chemicals: $12.4 billion (2.6%)
Many of the above are manufactured stateside or are ramping/rebirthing in the USA but a favorable trade agreement can displace Chinese imports with British imports. For decades the USA has held China’s hand leading them away from their 3rd world sh*thole status. And look how they cheated in return. It’s time to give the Brits a chance to trade, they have quality engineers, manufacturers, a strong work ethic, and a great respect for IP and the Rule of Law as they are the historical inventors of it. They will be a much better trading partner than China.
Best. Article. Ever.
The trade deal is dependent only on the Irish backstop ie ensuring that the UK keeps the border open as per the 1997 Good Friday agreement.
The $39b is for projects the British agreed to pay as per the 2014-2020 budget cycle.
The trade deal is not dependent upon the latter. The latter ia what the UK owes a d promised to pay in 2013-2014 when ot freely agrees to and indeed decided the budget
BUMP!
All of the British goods exports are incompleted WIP products in the supply chain or are heavily dependent on the western European supply chain. Without a customs union these goods will not be produced at the same quantity levels as WIP would be held up on customs, even if there are only spot checks
You can’t just reorient it.it would be like taking out California from the USA (well the UK is about 10% of the eu gdp so about the same). There isn’t a “let’s switch California exports to Mexico” overnight. And imagine if California stopped manufacturing goods. That’s the UK
Yep. Everything he said applies equally to the US except in the US we elected a president instead of voting on a referendum. The vileness of the Establishment and their lying MSM lapdogs is exactly the same though.
First, bureaucracies are NOT "the government".
Second, the six year replacements would be staggered. Every year a sixth of any given bureaucratic group would be replaced with civil service workers from outside DC (and no, I don't mean 'from Virginia') The process would give more power to the people we ELECT and less to self-appointed corrupt royalty holding sinecures...
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